Synonyms for world war
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of world war
Origin :- attested by 1898 as a speculation.
- If through fear of entangling alliances the United States should return the Philippines to Spain, Mr. Page asserted that the predatory nations would swoop down upon them and a world war would result. ["New York Times," Dec. 16, 1898]
- Applied to the first one almost as soon as it began in 1914 ("England has Thrown Lot with France in World War" -- headline, "Pittsburgh Press," Aug. 2, 1914). World War I coined 1939, replacing Great War as the most common name for it; First World War, World War II, and Second World War all also are from 1939.
- noun great war
- And the generation born after the Second World War has come of age.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- That is to say, it was no more of a miracle than hundreds of similar cases in the World War.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- It came into use in the Second World War of 1950 or thereabouts.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
- The World War was conceived in greed and will be consummated in justice.
- Extract from : « Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer » by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
- Napoleon is the only man who has waged a world war in the world as we know it to-day.
- Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton
- The World War has been an awakening in this as in other directions.
- Extract from : « Opportunities in Engineering » by Charles M. Horton
- He allowed the Germans to use him in bringing on the world war.
- Extract from : « Face to Face with Kaiserism » by James W. Gerard
- At the time of the delivery of this speech Europe was in the throes of the World War.
- Extract from : « Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year » by E.C. Hartwell
- And so it remained up to the outbreak of the world war in 1914.
- Extract from : « Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders » by George Wharton Edwards
- What will be the influence of this world war upon rural life?
- Extract from : « Rural Problems of Today » by Ernest R. Groves
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